Mother Tongue and Other Tongues: Narratives in Multilingual Psychotherapy

by Ali Zarbafi and Shoula Wilson

We are living in times where the issue of identity and difference has taken on a more defensive hue. The tide is turning towards an inward-looking nostalgia of sameness based on fear rather than on understanding. The experience of hearing another language, the way it is spoken, and being faced with the image of the other is now more complex, imbued with projections of powerlessness, fear, terrorism, and survival. The issue of identity appears to have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191269185X
• ISBN13: 9781912691852
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"